Politburo: 400 cadres to be sent abroad for training
Politburo: 400 cadres to be sent abroad for training

From now to 2025, about 400 cadres will be sent to training courses abroad each year. From 2026 to 2030, the figure will be 500.

Politburo: 400 cadres to be sent abroad for training
Online quiz on Vietnam-Laos ties underway
Online quiz on Vietnam-Laos ties underway

As many as 79,567 people participated in an online quiz on the special Vietnam-Laos relations during its seventh week, from 4pm on July 25 to 3pm on August 1.

Online quiz on Vietnam-Laos ties underway
Stronger efforts in monkeypox prevention urged
Stronger efforts in monkeypox prevention urged

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has instructed People’s Committees of cities and provinces to immediately issue instructions on the prevention and control of monkeypox.

Stronger efforts in monkeypox prevention urged
Gov’t requests probe into karaoke bar fire cause that kills 3 firefighters
Gov’t requests probe into karaoke bar fire cause that kills 3 firefighters

VOV.VN - Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh has requested the Ministry of Public Security and the Hanoi administration to identify the cause of a blaze that ravaged a 6-storey karaoke parlor and killed three firefighters in the capital on August 1.

Gov’t requests probe into karaoke bar fire cause that kills 3 firefighters
Gov’t requests probe into karaoke bar fire cause that kills 3 firefighters
Gov’t requests probe into karaoke bar fire cause that kills 3 firefighters

VOV.VN - Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh has requested the Ministry of Public Security and the Hanoi administration to identify the cause of a blaze that ravaged a 6-storey karaoke parlor and killed three firefighters in the capital on August 1.

Gov’t requests probe into karaoke bar fire cause that kills 3 firefighters
Politburo: 400 cadres to be sent abroad for training
Politburo: 400 cadres to be sent abroad for training

From now to 2025, about 400 cadres will be sent to training courses abroad each year. From 2026 to 2030, the figure will be 500.

Politburo: 400 cadres to be sent abroad for training
Dengue fever claims 45 lives in Vietnam
Dengue fever claims 45 lives in Vietnam

VOV.VN - More than 136,000 people have so far this year tested positive for the dengue virus in Vietnam, including 45 deaths, the Ministry of Health reported (MoH).

Dengue fever claims 45 lives in Vietnam
Broadcasters ready for start of National Radio Festival
Broadcasters ready for start of National Radio Festival

VOV.VN - Broadcasters and technicians nationwide have completed the final preparation ahead of the 15th National Radio Festival which will be held from August 2 to August 6 in Ho Chi Minh City.

Broadcasters ready for start of National Radio Festival
Local universities partner with USAID to drive socio-economic development
Local universities partner with USAID to drive socio-economic development

VOV.VN - The United States, through US Agency for International Development (USAID), launched a US$14.2 million partnership with three leading Vietnamese universities on August 1.

Local universities partner with USAID to drive socio-economic development
Vietnamese in RoK launch writing contest on special bilateral ties
Vietnamese in RoK launch writing contest on special bilateral ties

VOV.VN - The Association of Vietnamese Communities in Korea (AVCK) recently launched a writing contest on relations between the Republic of Korea (RoK) and Vietnam.

Vietnamese in RoK launch writing contest on special bilateral ties
HCM City seeks to improve public transport
HCM City seeks to improve public transport

Ho Chi Minh City needs to develop a specific roadmap to improve access to public transport, limit the use of personal vehicles, and speed up progress of metro lines, BRT (bus rapid transit), and others, experts have said.

HCM City seeks to improve public transport
PM chairs conference on social housing development
PM chairs conference on social housing development

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired a conference on August 1 to discuss measures to expand social housing facilities for workers and low-income earners.

PM chairs conference on social housing development
Vietnamese in RoK launch writing contest on special bilateral ties
Vietnamese in RoK launch writing contest on special bilateral ties

VOV.VN - The Association of Vietnamese Communities in Korea (AVCK) recently launched a writing contest on relations between the Republic of Korea (RoK) and Vietnam.

Vietnamese in RoK launch writing contest on special bilateral ties
Career fair hosted for Vietnamese students in Australia
Career fair hosted for Vietnamese students in Australia

The United Association of Vietnamese Students in New South Wales, Australia, (UAVS) has hosted the UAVS Career Fair 2022 in Sydney, providing an opportunity for Vietnamese senior university students and fresh graduates to connect with enterprises from both countries and seek job vacancies.

Career fair hosted for Vietnamese students in Australia
Saudi Arabia supports Vietnam through development projects
Saudi Arabia supports Vietnam through development projects

A working team from the Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) has inspected a number of projects it is funding in some localities of Vietnam, according to the Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Vietnam.

Saudi Arabia supports Vietnam through development projects
Embassy supports Vietnamese citizens drowned in Thailand
Embassy supports Vietnamese citizens drowned in Thailand

The Vietnamese Embassy in Thailand has swiftly contacted and provided necessary information about legal procedures to relatives of two Vietnamese citizens who drowned to death in Phuket Island in the morning July 31.

Embassy supports Vietnamese citizens drowned in Thailand
Over 5,000 people walk for AO victims in HCM City
Over 5,000 people walk for AO victims in HCM City

More than 5,000 people joined a charity walk in support of agent orange (AO)/dioxin victims at Dam Sen Culture Park in Ho Chi Minh City on July 31.

Over 5,000 people walk for AO victims in HCM City
UNDP pledges more flood-proof houses for Thanh Hoa
UNDP pledges more flood-proof houses for Thanh Hoa

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will help build an additional 100 flood-resistant houses for poor households in the north-central coastal province of Thanh Hoa in the coming time, said UN Assistant Secretary General and UNDP Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific Kanni Wignaraja.

UNDP pledges more flood-proof houses for Thanh Hoa
Vietnam attends 8th World Cities Summit
Vietnam attends 8th World Cities Summit

A delegation of officials from nine Vietnamese localities are joining the 8th World Cities Summit (WCS) at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore, from July 31 - August 3.

Vietnam attends 8th World Cities Summit
Central Military Hospital receives hygiene excellence award
Central Military Hospital receives hygiene excellence award

Central Military Hospital 108 is among the five to receive the Asia Pacific Hand Hygiene Excellence Award and Innovation Award 2021 for excellently performing hand hygiene at the recent Hand Hygiene Excellence Award Ceremony 2022 in Singapore.

Central Military Hospital receives hygiene excellence award
IUU fight: Four provinces complete installation of VMS on eligible fishing boats
IUU fight: Four provinces complete installation of VMS on eligible fishing boats

Four coastal provinces have completed the installation of vessel monitoring systems (VMS) equipment on all fishing boats with a length of 15m and more, according to the Directorate of Fisheries under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

IUU fight: Four provinces complete installation of VMS on eligible fishing boats
Vietnam Embassy in Germany issues certificate for holders of new-style passports
Vietnam Embassy in Germany issues certificate for holders of new-style passports

The Embassy of Vietnam in Germany has announced that it is ready to issue a confirmation in German about the place of birth for Vietnamese citizens using new-style passports, in case they need it to present to German authorities.

Vietnam Embassy in Germany issues certificate for holders of new-style passports
Foreign arrivals surge over seven-month period
Foreign arrivals surge over seven-month period

VOV.VN - International visitors to the country reached 954,600 during the opening seven months of the year, representing a 10-fold increase compared to the same period from last year, according to figures revealed by the General Statistics Office (GSO).

Foreign arrivals surge over seven-month period
Roundtable discusses governance, finance for equitable energy transition in VN
Roundtable discusses governance, finance for equitable energy transition in VN

A roundtable, entitled “Finance and Governance Accelerators for a Just Energy Transition", took place in Hanoi on July 29.

Roundtable discusses governance, finance for equitable energy transition in VN
Workshop aims to ensure rights of vulnerable groups amid climate change
Workshop aims to ensure rights of vulnerable groups amid climate change

Impacts of climate change on the enjoyment of rights of vulnerable groups were discussed at a workshop jointly held by the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Hanoi on July 29.

Workshop aims to ensure rights of vulnerable groups amid climate change
Scholars expect to revolutionalise understanding of Vietnam
Scholars expect to revolutionalise understanding of Vietnam

Top scholars from Columbia University presented prospects for the burgeoning field of Vietnamese Studies at a conference in Hanoi on July 29 titled "Understand the Past - Transform the Future."

Scholars expect to revolutionalise understanding of Vietnam
Over 200 experts attend Vietnam-US educational conference in Hanoi
Over 200 experts attend Vietnam-US educational conference in Hanoi

The US-funded Summer Conference 2022 opened in Hanoi on July 29 with the participation of more than 200 experts.

Over 200 experts attend Vietnam-US educational conference in Hanoi
Blockchain Global Day 2022 exhibition kicks off in HCM City
Blockchain Global Day 2022 exhibition kicks off in HCM City

The Blockchain Global Day 2022, themed “Into the Infinity Con-Verse convened”, opened in Ho Chi Minh City on July 29 as the first in a series of the annual blockchain exhibitions intended to maximise conditions to facilitate the development of the industry in Vietnam.

Blockchain Global Day 2022 exhibition kicks off in HCM City
Localities speed up disbursement in support of pandemic-hit labourers
Localities speed up disbursement in support of pandemic-hit labourers

So far, more than 138,300 labourers in Ho Chi Minh City have received housing rent support under the Prime Minister’s decision, according to the municipal Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

Localities speed up disbursement in support of pandemic-hit labourers
Vietnam ranks fourth in Southeast Asia in average height
Vietnam ranks fourth in Southeast Asia in average height

Vietnamese are the fourth tallest people in Southeast Asia, only after Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia, thanks to improvements in maternal and child nutrition, heard a workshop held by the Ministry of Health in Hanoi on July 28.

Vietnam ranks fourth in Southeast Asia in average height